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>Americans are very patriotic. Singing the national anthem and waving the flag is second nature. I'm pretty sick of these kind of nation-based generalizations.
by serf 5y ago
>Americans are very patriotic. Singing the national anthem and waving the flag is second nature.
I'm pretty sick of these kind of nation-based generalizations.
They're never as true as the person pretends they are, and they're usually just thinnly-veiled hate speech of various types.
Generalizing other human beings by what country they were given membership to -- usually uncontrolled by birth, by the way -- is about the weakest way to gain an insight into the persona of another person.
- silicon2401 5y agoThis is especially true given how common criticism of the US is among Americans these days. Not to mention it also leaves out that plenty of other countries around the world don't hesitate to sing their national anthem and wave their flag either.
- juanani 5y agoI think the criticism is valid, especially from its own citizens. What I found most bizarre is how kids are trained/required/mandated to pledge allegiance to the flag EVERY day without even knowing what they are actually doing. 30minutes later as the lesson unfolds we hear of how atrocious those Nazi Germans were- how brainwashed the Japs were, condemning them as animals unworthy of life. You question it for a sec but 'Praise the Supreme Leader' comes on over the speakers so you jump again with your hand across the heart and join the rest of the group with Praise.